NATO member countries are considering the possibility of concluding a long-term agreement with Ukraine, under which Kyiv will receive Western weapons and military technology.
This was announced by Polish President Andrzej Duda in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper recalls that US President Joe Biden and other Western leaders have said that NATO-Ukraine relations could be modeled on US-Israeli security relations.
At present, an agreement has been reached between the United States and Israel, providing for multi-billion dollar US arms deliveries over a ten-year period. At the same time, the United States has taken no obligation to help Israel in the event of external aggression.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting a White House spokesperson, writes that Western allies are trying to develop a formula for interaction with Ukraine that will allow it to provide long-term security support, based on the thesis that Ukraine is unlikely to become a member of NATO in the coming years.
According to the newspaper, such an agreement should remove the Kremlin’s hope that a protracted war is in its interest and that Western support for Ukraine will diminish over time.
“Russia must understand today that Ukraine has received security guarantees and these guarantees will not die out over time,” Andrzej Duda said in an interview.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the NATO-Ukraine Council is expected to be announced at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July this year.
Kiev will have the right to call council meetings and ask NATO member countries for help.
The United States, Britain, France and Germany should become direct participants in the agreement on providing security guarantees to Ukraine, the newspaper writes.
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